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Occupational Therapy Assistant

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A new Medicare patient has been placed on your schedule for the afternoon at the nursing home where you work. Your OT department has not yet finished the treatment plan for this patient. But the rehabilitation director is pressuring you to provide treatment to this patient to count toward Medicare reimbursement. How do you respond to the rehabilitation director?
  1. You tell the rehabilitation director that you cannot provide treatment to the patient until the OT department has established the treatment plan.
  2. You tell the rehabilitation director that you will write the treatment plan for the patient, so you can provide treatment.
  3. You tell the rehabilitation director that you will provide general treatment activities until the OT department establishes the treatment plan.
  4. You ask the rehabilitation director to establish the treatment plan for the patient since the OT department has not done so yet.
Explanation
Answer: A. You tell the rehabilitation director that you cannot provide treatment to the patient until the OT department has established the treatment plan. COTAs may not establish the treatment plan and may not initiate treatment without a treatment plan in place.
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